TOUR / RECEPTION DETAILS (attendees must be registered for this tour in advance)
*This tour / reception is Sold Out
The University Tour and Reception is sponsored by the A James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. It is with great appreciation and thanks that we acknowledge their support to this year's conference.
Tour and Reception Timeline
| 2:00pm: |
Meet in hotel lobby (specific signs will be displayed) |
| 2:00pm – 2:15pm: |
Buses will depart hotel |
| 2:45pm: |
Arrive at the University of Maryland |
| 2:45pm – 3:00pm: |
Attendees will placed in smaller groups |
| 3:00pm – 5:00pm: |
Individual Tours of the 6 UMD Laboratories or Centers (listed below) |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm: |
Reception for tour attendees |
| 6:15pm – 6:30pm: |
Buses will depart UMD and return to the hotel. |
Please note the following:
- Attendees are NOT permitted to travel to/from the university on their own.
- As noted above. Buses will depart the hotel between 2:00pm and 2:15pm. Unfortunately, there is no option to attend the tour or reception at a later time.
- Wear comfortable shoes.
- Primarily, this is a walking tour. The labs and centers are dispersed throughout the campus. If needed we will use buses to transport attendees from some of the labs and centers.
- Part of this tour includes climbing stairs (approximately 3-4 flights). Your tour guide will provide you with more information at the time of the tour. You will be able to wait for the group if you are not interested or able to participate in certain parts of the tour.
Laboratories and Centers that will be available during the tour include the following:
| Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering |
Contact: Dr. Diganta Das
Room 1103, Engineering Lab Building
Phone: 301-405-7770
|
Website: http: //www.calce.umd.edu/
The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), the largest electronic products and systems research center focused on electronics reliability, is dedicated to providing a knowledge and resource base to support the development of competitive electronic components, products and systems. CALCE formally started in 1984 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an NSF Center of Excellence in systems reliability. It is also one of the world's most advanced and comprehensive testing and failure analysis laboratories. Currently, it is funded by over 150 of the world's leading companies and is supported by over 120 faculty, visiting scientists and research assistants. In addition to supporting the research program of the center, CALCE Test Services and Failure Analysis (TSFA) Laboratory is one of the most sophisticated labs in the world. The TSFA Lab performs standard and custom tests and failure analysis services, including proprietary services that may range from a day to several years.
|
|
| Space Systems Laboratory |
|
Contact: Dr. David Akin
2100D Neutral Buoyancy
Phone: 301-405-1138
Email: dakin@umd.edu
|
Website: http: //www.ssl.umd.edu/
The Space Systems Laboratory focuses on developing and testing advanced technologies for complex operations in space and other challenging environments. The Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility, a 50-foot diameter, 25-foot deep water tank to simulate the microgravity environment of space, is one of only two such facilities active in the United States and is the only neutral buoyancy facility in the world to be located on a university campus. The Advanced Robotics Development Laboratory is another research facility of the SSL, providing a central location for the design, development, and testing of advanced robotic systems for space, including thermal and thermal vacuum chambers for environmental testing, and a complete electronics development and testing laboratory. Research in the Space Systems Laboratory emphasizes space and underwater robotics, human systems, and human/robotic interaction, including medical rehabilitation. A number of dexterous robotics systems are currently operational in the SSL, including Ranger, a four-manipulator system for satellite servicing which has been qualified for space flight; SAMURAI, a 6000-meter class deep submergence system for autonomous underwater sampling; RAVEN, an astronaut support rover for planetary exploration with integral robotic sampling capability; and an exoskeletal robotic system for shoulder rehabilitation. Human systems include several generations of space suits for neutral buoyancy and Earth analog testing, incorporating advanced bioinstrumentation and experimental controls and displays for human-robot interaction. The SSL has also developed two full-scale lunar habitat mockups for NASA, and has a planetary surface simulation facility for simulating human and robotic activities on the Moon and Mars.
|
|
| Maryland Nanocenter |
|
Contact: Dr. James O'Connor
2212 Kim Engineering Building
Phone: 301-45-5018
Email: joconnor@umd.edu
|
Website: http: //www.nanocenter.umd.edu/
A 10,000 square feet clean room with 6,600 square feet of Class 100 space dedicated for processing nanoscale devices, FabLab is the Maryland NanoCenter process technology laboratory. Research areas include nano materials and devices, electronics, energy storage, optoelectronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and bio/chemical sensors and systems. Recognized as one of the top university research laboratories in the country, FabLab offers outstanding opportunities for both research and education for the University of Maryland community as well as outside users from other universities, government research centers and private industry. FabLab has a permanent staff of four professionals. Our users draw on our extensive experience (more than 100 years in total) in materials development and device processing/testing to enhance their research programs. |
|
| Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory |
Contact: Dr. Jaydev P. Desai
0160 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Phone: 301-405-4427
Email: jaydev@umd.edu
|
Website: http: //rams.umd.edu
The Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) laboratory is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park, and affiliated with the Maryland Robotics Center. It focuses primarily on research in the areas of Medical Robotics both at the macro and micro scale. Specifically, RAMS lab research is targeted towards: Image-guided Surgical Robotics, Haptic (sense of touch) interfaces for Robot-assisted Surgery, Reality-based soft-tissue modeling for Surgical Simulation, Model-based teleoperation in Robot-assisted surgery, and characterization of cells and micro-scale tissue specimens. |
|
| Maryland Robotics Center |
|
Contact: Dr. S. K. Gupta
2147 A. V. Williams Building
Phone: 301-405-5306
Email: skgupta@umd.edu
|
Website: http: //robotics.umd.edu/
The Maryland Robotics Center is an interdisciplinary research center housed in the Institute for Systems Research within the A. James Clark School of Engineering. The mission of the center is to advance robotic systems, underlying component technologies, and applications of robotics through research and educational programs that are interdisciplinary in nature and based on a systems approach. The center's research activities include all aspects of robotics including development of component technologies (e.g., sensors, actuators, structures, and communication), novel robotic platforms, and intelligence and autonomy for robotic systems. The center consists of faculty members spanning the following academic departments: Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering, Biology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Research projects in the center are supported by the major federal funding agencies including NSF, ARO, ARL, ONR, AFOSR, NIH, DARPA, NASA, and NIST. |
|
| Terps Racing Club |
|
Contact: Mr. Steven Chung
(team leader)
1229 J. M. Patterson Building
Phone: 240-620-2405
Email: emailooram@gmail.com
|
Website: http: //www.terpsracing.com/
Terps Racing is established for the expressed purpose of uniting students of the same passion of vehicle design and manufacturing and to encourage students to participate in public affairs as well as organize and participate in social events. Terps racing will also have access to the vehicles designed by the ENME 408 FSAE and Baja SAE teams. Maryland Formula SAE and Baja SAE cars are designed, built, and tested by Maryland students. The program offers the unique opportunity for mechanical engineering students to apply everything they have learned in their classes and expand on their knowledge. There is no detail overlooked; FEA, CFD, multi-level optimization, dynamic modeling, and data-acquisition are extensively used to make sure the car will perform to the highest standards. Through hard work and diligence, Maryland students have made the Terps racing program one of the top programs in the world. |
|
